Back in June, news broke that Nob Hill's loved/hated/occasionally pigeon-inhabited neighborhood grocer Cala Foods would be disappearing to make way for a Trader Joe's. At the time, the neighborhood was positively rocked by the news that parking at California and Hyde would soon become the same nightmarish hellscape that pops up outside the grocery chain's Masonic Avenue location. Now, a couple months later, we have word that Cala Foods has started clearing out their final shipments of foodstuffs and notifying customers of their last day in business: next Saturday, December 3rd, about a week after the huge Thanksgiving belt-loosening. more ›

Developer plans to replace Nob Hill's aging, dusty Cala Foods with roughly a hundred condos and ground floor retail have been scrapped in favor of a new Trader Joe's location, the San Francisco Business Times reports this afternoon. Like the condos that were originally slated to sit atop the latest Whole Foods location on Stanyan Street in the Haight, developers ditched plans for new housing in favor of simply renovating the current space. more ›

While some Valencia Street merchants and Geary Boulevard business owners would have you believe that San Francisco is a bastion of overpriced boutique stores and inaccessibility, respectively, most of you are too smart to believe such tripe. A city is, arguably, meant to grow. Onward and upward, right? Right. more ›

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You know that juicy rumor that in place of the late, not-so-lamented Cala Foods, Whole Foods would open up there until a new store with condos on top could be built? And you know how people were going "yay!" as among other things, it would mean having something at the end of Haight besides what is now pretty much an empty lot? Well, ain't happening. more ›